Update: Widow withdraws lawsuit against homeowner

The widow of David Park, an Albany schoolteacher who was shot dead after he entered a stranger’s home in suburban Buffalo, is dropping the lawsuit she filed against the homeowner who killed him.

Deanna Ripstein, of Rensselaer, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in State Supreme Court earlier this month. On Monday morning, her attorney, David Elibol, issued a brief two-sentence statement declaring that Ripstein had dropped the suit after “careful consideration.”